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  • adverb In a troublous manner.

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troublous +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • Volubly, troublously, the late clock sounded, coming in on the wake of Big Ben, with its lap full of trifles.

    Mrs. Dalloway 2003

  • The Grand-Duke's greeting was gracious in the extreme; and five minutes of condolences and conventionalities passed between them before Ivan, driven by the recollection of infinite work to be begun, precipitated that subject to which his Highness was troublously leading up.

    The Genius Margaret Horton Potter

  • The feverish hours pass troublously, but there is no response in the night of the City of Unrest.

    Impressions of a War Correspondent George Lynch

  • A revolt in Sicily in the year 1282, commonly called the Sicilian Vespers, had severed the relation between the island and the mainland, the former passing to the royal family of Aragon, and the latter troublously remaining in French hands until 1442.

    A Political and Social History of Modern Europe V.1. Carlton J. H. Hayes 1923

  • All that night, and recurrently on many nights thereafter, the poisoned and contorted face and the scrawled "MERCY" on the cabinet lurked troublously in his mind.

    Average Jones Samuel Hopkins Adams 1914

  • But while his soul was so troublously struggling through the network of the days, another soul, eager and serene, was watching all his desperate efforts.

    Jean-Christophe, Volume I Romain Rolland 1905

  • If doubts, a vague uneasiness relative to the afternoon, still fretted the hinterlands of her mind (and they did), she was much too well trained, too resolute withal, to let them appear troublously upon the surface.

    V. V.'s Eyes Henry Sydnor Harrison 1905

  • This saw I bodily, troublously and darkly; and I desired more bodily sight, to have seen more clearly.

    Revelations of Divine Love 1901

  • BUT in this I stood beholding things general, troublously and mourning, saying thus to our Lord in my meaning, with full great dread: Ah! good

    Revelations of Divine Love 1901

  • He thought it wise to remain in his room until the merchant was gone down town, and troublously he had begun to doze again when Ellen's voice aroused him.

    The Colossus A Novel Opie Percival Read 1895

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